Vyshnevolotskie valenki are known throughout Russia. Local craftsmen not only preserved the traditions of hand felting but also popularized the production of these shoes. The central place is occupied by tsar-valenok with a height of 2 m 25 cm, size No. 201, and a weight of 52 kg. The museum...

Nowadays the territory of the manor park in the village of Vasilyovo is occupied by the Architectural and Ethnographic museum under the sky "Vasilyovo". The manor house was saved, but beautiful park with the cascade of ponds survived there, along with the wing-greenhouse and famous three-arcboulder...

Thanks to A.S. Pushkin's the Pozharsky hotel became truly famous. In 1826 in a comic guide book sent to his friend S.A. Sobolevsky, Alexander Pushkin writes: "At your leisure, have dinner  At Pozharsky in Torzhok,  Grill cutlets partake (just cutlets)  And go light."  These...

Valdai is a small Russian town nestled among picturesque hills on the shores of the beautiful Valdai Lake. Valdai is a popular tourism and recreation center with numerous tourist centers, boarding houses and the Valdai Dawns tourist complex. In 1990, in the vicinity of Valdai, the Valdai National...

Noble Assembly building is located at the corner of Sovetskaya street and Teatralny road. It was built according to the project of architect I. F. Lvov for Tver noble society in 1842. The main hall with Corinthian columns and caryatids is very impressive. For a long time there were receptions of...

When you walk through the City Garden along the coast near the Old Volga Bridge, you can see the elegant monument to A. S. Pushkin called "White Nights", a sculptural composition by sculptor O. K. Komov erected in 1974, when Russia was celebrating the 175th anniversary of the birth of the great...

August 29, 1609 the Russian army led by M. V. Skopin-Shuisky won the decisive victory over the Polish-Lithuanian invaders in the battle at the Konstantinovskoe field near the Zhabna river. In 2009 to the 400th anniversary of this victory the monument to the outstanding Russian commander Mikhail...